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To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth (www.nature.com)

Minimum wage hikes will take effect in 2024 for 25 U.S. states. Here's who is getting a raise. (www.cbsnews.com)

how much backing up would you do of a media server?

I have a nas with 2x10tb drives. I mostly just have music, movies and tv shows on it....

Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners (arstechnica.com)

The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion (lemmy.world)

Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...

Valve needs to step up on Anti-Cheat

So yeah, I want to discuss or point out why I think Valve needs to fix Anti-Cheat issues. They have VAC but apparently its doing jackshit, be it Counter Strike 2 (any previous iterations) or something like Hunt: Showdown the prevalence of cheating players is non deniable. For me personally it has come to a point that I am not...

should i?? (media.kbin.social)

Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech (www.theverge.com)

Donald Trump says he never swore oath "to support the Constitution" (www.newsweek.com)

TIL that during the filming of Borat, Police was called 90+ times (www.youtube.com)

And the FBI was assigned to follow the film team on reports of a “vaguely middle-eastern man with a bear in an ice-crem truck”, which has to be the funniest report xD

So... it's been a while now since the great exodus. How are you all doing my fellow refugees? (kbin.social)

I made my home here permanently now. It seems like such a friendlier place but how are you all doing?

We always imagine that if humans had tails they'd be furry tails but they'd actually probably be hairless like our bodies

Google to weaken ad blockers on Chrome in a push for security (cybernews.com)

Starting June 2024, adblockers such as uBlock Origin and many other extensions on Chrome will no longer work as intended. Google Chrome will begin disabling extensions based on an older extension platform, called Manifest V2, as it moves to the more limited V3 version.

Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source (techcrunch.com)

The article is about Kyutai, a French AI lab with an objective to compete with chatgpt and others with full open source (research papers, models, and training data)....

Risa Quiz ... Who is this man (lemmy.ca)

For all those Trek fans, Risa Fans, new fans, old fans and oscillating fans out there … let’s test your Trek knowledge....

Whats the best way to archive data long term while on a budget ?

I just need to preserve some old data that I have on my computers, so I was wondering what would be the best way to archive stuff long term....

'Couldn't See Anymore:' Bored Ape Conference Attendees Wake Up With Searing Eye Pain, Vision Loss (www.404media.co)

Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery::Discord will switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of the year to block attackers from using its CDN (content delivery network) for hosting and pushing malware.

Kendrick Lamar's company just dropped a limited-edition 'dumb' phone. It's already sold out. (www.businessinsider.com)

Kendrick Lamar enters the tech space with a collaboration on the Light Phone 2. Light phones offer minimalistic experiences without apps or color.

Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated (www.memri.org)

Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: “Everything we do is justified.”

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...